A large brain imaging study suggests that insomnia, depression, and anxiety—often co-occurring—share overlapping brain abnormalities.

There is tremendous interest in the question of how salient, emotional and socially-charged visual stimuli are processed by the brain ... cortex and that culminates in the amygdala by way of ...

GNWT, championed by French cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, argues that consciousness emerges when information ...

It's as if the prefrontal cortex – the part of the brain credited for our ability ... for what we might call 'instinct' (the basolateral amygdala, or BA, being the locus of fear and pain memory ...

And in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), research suggests that areas of the brain that inhibit the activity of the amygdala (such as the ventral medial prefrontal cortex) are themselves less ...

Consciousness is at the center of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, ...

And through pathways of nerve connection to other areas of the brain, the response weakens activity of the brain’s decision-making center in the prefrontal cortex. Overcoming addiction usually ...

The amygdala ... part of the brain: the frontal lobes. These two, large areas are located at the front of your brain. The front lobes are part of the brain’s cerebral cortex.

"And then what's great is that they get to know all these parts of their brain. They know what the hippocampus does, they know what the amygdala does, and they know what the prefrontal cortex does.

New Delhi: Damage to the 'medial' region of the prefrontal cortex -- the brain region that helps with planning and achieving goals -- could make one more impulsive and likely to be influenced by ...